Reuters: Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after latest unrest over food
Venezuelan security forces have arrested at least 400 people after the latest bout of looting and food riots in the crisis-hit OPEC member country, local officials said on Wednesday.
Another death was also reported in the state of Merida from unrest which is breaking out sporadically across the South American OPEC nation.
On Tuesday, violence engulfed the eastern Caribbean coastal town of Cumana as looters swarmed through dozens of shops and security forces struggled to maintain control.
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WNU Editor: Here is one more example on how "nuts" Venezuela has become .... In Starving, Medicineless Venezuela, Supreme Court Blocks Foreign Help (Latin American Herald Tribune).
More News On The Food Crisis In Venezuela
4th person dies as a result of food riots rocking Venezuela. -- AP
Venezuela in crisis: 400 arrested for looting -- Al Jazeera
Looting, arrests soar as Venezuela’s food crisis mounts -- USA Today
Venezuelan city under effective curfew after mass looting -- The Guardian
22 comments:
Socialism/communism just has not been done right!
Socialism/Communism in action!
I wonder what 'young communist' will do when he grows up?
Imitate Che?
Imitate Jose Lopez?
Argentina's Former Public Works Secretary Caught Burying $8.5 Million
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-15/argentinas-former-public-works-secretary-caught-burying-85-million
WNU,
It's not "nuts".
Having been the target of quite a few Foreign State/ NGO attempts at "Colour Revolutions" and Foreign State sponored Coups,
They quite correctly suspect that "Humanitarian Aid Programs" will be used as a Trojan Horse to topple the Government.
Barney Sanders supporter shout out loud (feel the burn....) redistribution of wealth is coming to America .and a man coming out of Venezuela answering said been there done that.:)
The redistrubutaion of wealth in the US is continuing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
6.7% more every year going to the 1%, ( when GDP growth is 1.2%) and 86% of that wealth transfer goes to the 0.1%.
Agreed Jay, but the inept Maduro appointed idiots as ministers, presided over ridiculous monetary policies and altogether failed to strengthen Venezuela against her enemies, inside and out. You can't eat slogans.
All that's left now is the complete capitulation of Bolivarianism or a real revolution and horrible civil war which could spread outside of Venezuela's borders. I lean toward the latter. Maduro, Caprilles and the lot should leave Venezuela. Now.
Socialists, Bolivarian or otherwise, should be honest about the failures of the system they champion. Even if there are contributing external influences.
Capitalists, instead of blaming some mythical socialist mole or impurity, should be too.
So what is the Ukrainian, South African, Greek, Mexican etc. on and on excuse for failure?
Give Ukraine a year, and we'll see who is "the world's unhappiest country". They already have the civil war part down pat.
By the way,
Did Socialism put the U.S. $14 trillion (and counting) in debt???? What happens when that bubble bursts?? Hate crimes? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Bull$#-+.
YC may have a crisis when faced with the very real choices a revolutionary has to make when his/her nice, neat, pretty vision of the world is confronted with a very mean, messy, ugly reality.
I'm sure he'll do no worse than Jackson.
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11469514/andrew-jackson-indian-removal
HHR with out going to far from who is going to be the president next year here in the U.S the government have not paid for E.V.T cards for two weeks and recipients are getting very upset wondering what would happen if this 300 pounds people started rioting.
The Bolivarists control neither the price of oil, or the weather.
As Argentinia shows, all a Bolivarist Government can do in a country that has been ruled through Crony Capitalist Corruption for decades, is offer lesser forms of corruption and patronage, to buy loyalty, because loyalty is only bought and sold in those countries.
And as the Alberta Soverign Wealth Funds show, Epic economic mismanagement seems to cross all political boundaries.
If the Bolivarists "go", there will be a Civil War, because the Crony Corrupt Capitalists cannot control the price of oil or the weather either.
I wonder who's going to be blamed if bullets start to fly.
Si,
The should be more concerned about what all those people under arms belonging to the biggest corporate welfare scheme in history, A.K.A. the U.S. military, will do when the direct deposits stop.
"300 pounds people" may be in season(ing) before you know it.
Touché Jay. Touché.
I should add that YC will probably be A LOT nicer than the Grandkids.
Phill, as for bullets and blame,
Putin
Stalin
Che
You know, the usual suspects.
I was going to blame the (smurfs).
I think the anti-Bolivarist platform for solving the problem, should they come to power, is to eat the poor, women and children first.
You seem to enjoy your rants, I enjoy your rants,
You might like driftglass:
http://driftglass.blogspot.ca/2016/06/knockin-on-satans-door.html?m=1
He's no KungFu Monkey:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]
Or Steve Gillard,
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.ca/2007/01/be-greatful-iraqis.html?m=1
but Steve died and Kung Fu Monkey doesn't blog anymore.
Jay. I saw the impact of NGOs on China in the 1980s .... and we are all aware of what they have done in Ukraine. But it all comes down to governments imposing the restrictions that they want when it comes to NGOs and foreign aid. President Maduro has the power to do and impose what he wants .... he can impose conditions/restrictions .... or not. The problem in Venezuela is unfortunately more deeper than that .... we are witnessing a government in paralysis .... and common sense is being replaced with paranoia. As I had explained a month or two ago .... I know exactly what the Venezuelans are going through (having lived through it when the Soviet Union broke up), and I am disheartened that my prediction then that the Venezuelans have seen nothing yet is now coming to pass with food riots and mass looting.
WNU,
What did the NGOs do in China in the 1980s?
The problem with Venezuela is they have not done communism right.
They need to do the whole leave the cities and relocate to the countryside.
They also need Red Guards. YC can go over there like Libyans go to Iraq. YC does need a meaningful job anyway.
"President Maduro has the power to do and impose what he wants .... he can impose conditions/restrictions .... or not."
Never send a corpulent bus driver to do a cocaine thug's job.
... And "The Lion, The Witch, and Wardrobe" is about a talking lion.
So Venezuela is selling oil at a loss and not a profit?
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